Residents of a neighborhood in the City Studio are concerned about their safety, saying that a nearby shelter camp had brought an attack from crime and obscene activity to the area.
The neighbors said that they were exposed to public nudity, flashing, sexual activity, drug use, threatened language and more on a daily basis.
Mirn Landre, who lives in a residential building on Bluffside Drive near the crowded BULUTURA Boulevard, said its unit is just meters away from all kinds of unwanted activity and interaction.
“I feel besieged and try to seek help in the correct course and no one pays attention to me,” she told Chris Wolf from KTLA.
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Watch a man in the camp of the homeless, waving a large knife. (Ktla) -
Residents Chris and Mirin said that they and other neighbors are constantly exposed to obscene and dribbling activities outside their apartment complex in the city of the studio. (Ktla) -
Continuous sexual activity can be seen in the camp of the displaced by the neighbors. (Ktla) -
The homeland camp is located outside the gates of the Studio City Residential Complex. (Ktla) -
Watch a man in the camp of the homeless, waving a large knife. (Ktla)
Landri said that many neighbors, many of whom were women, also reported the harassment of men living in the camp.
“A lot of things are very inappropriate,” she said. “[Remarks such as] What they want to do for our bodies or our clothes. It is a big drawing [verbal] He attacked Ali and my body. “
Landri feels afraid of getting out of her home, and worrying that the next meeting can turn violently. “I can overcome me very quickly,” she said.
The neighbors complained in the area and reported the incidents of the police and local leaders, but they said they had not received any strong responses to a possible solution.
Another neighbor, who was only identified as Chris, said about safety fears, that he and his wife are trying to avoid the alley as the camp is at any cost.
He recently saw a man, “spoiling, touching himself clearly in public places and children were walking.” In another incident, he called the police after seeing a young woman in the camp was screaming and covered with blood. Although the police responded, he said nothing was resolved.
He said: “The police came and asked these people to move, but they did not wait for a long time enough, to make sure they move.” “So they pretended to move and then only stayed.”
Residents are frustrated and said that they will not stop pressure on government leaders and law enforcement officials to solve the problem.
“I don’t want to hurt in order to do something,” Landri said. “I don’t want this to be the circumstances.”
The Los Angeles City Council member Nitia Raman, who represents the region, said in a statement that its office “is devoted to solving the camps permanently as quickly as possible, and getting people at home as only one way to avoid impulsing effects of displacement on another group of neighbors. We fully support LAPD to impose the law on any criminal activity that may be associated with this size.”
The neighbors said they hoped to dismantle the camp shortly before the future accident, which is likely to rise to violence.